I heart Mika Brzezinski
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My knitting blog is now located at the Needle Exchange!
Time for Science!
- My honours thesis has evolved into a possible linguistics paper as well as a psych paper, so my supervisor is doing various analyses of the data I used and has come up with some interesting new findings. I’m not going to say much more than that, but I will say that it mirrors some of the stuff discussed in a recent Mixing Memory post on Language, Writing, and the Spatial Representation of Events. Neat.
- Mixing Memory has become one of my favourite cogs blogs. Here’s another great one: Thinking About Evolution.
- Here’s a glowing review of PT-141, The Greatest Sex Drug… Ever… from someone who I’m assuming has never even tried it. Oh my. This Guardian article seems to be a bit more even-handed. It references an even more interesting study about personal autonomy. “That’s a tricky thing to measure, but it can be done. Paredes did it like this: first, he looked at rat couples living in standard, box-shaped cages and recorded the details of their sexual behaviour. Then, he altered the cages in only one particular: he divided them into two chambers with a clear wall broken only by one opening, too small for the males to get through but just right for the females…. It let them get away from the males whenever they chose to, and thereby made it entirely their choice whether to have sex…. The effects of giving a female rat greater personal control over her sex life are essentially the same as those of giving her PT-141. Autonomy, in other words, is as real an aphrodisiac as any substance known to science.”
- Choose Your Science Idol!
- And continuing the political bent: The Frontal Cortex on Fearmongering.
- What’s your favourite scientist-artist dream team?
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That Poor Child
N.Z. couple can’t name their son ‘4real’
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – New Zealand authorities have blocked a couple’s bid to officially name their new son “4real,” saying numerals are not allowed.
Pat and Sheena Wheaton said they decided to name their new baby “4real” shortly after having an ultrasound and being struck by the reality of his impending arrival.
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Bloggin’
And because I’m addicted to blogging, here is another one:
And because I don’t use enough swear words:
Fuck.
Dammit.
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Eve <3 Theremins
This wouldn’t be my blog if I didn’t post about theremins at least once a month.
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